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Time

Item number (ISN):

383035

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1920/1929 ?

Item number (ISN):

383035

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.

Accession:

1972-0105

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1920/1929 ?

Production company:

Scientific Educational Corporation

Country of production:

cn

Distributor name:

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

Description:

This film shows how clock time is arrived at from sun time. It describes how the rotation of the Earth traces the sun time, the Earth and the clock rotating together, how far the Earth turns in one hour, the difference in sun time between New York, San Francisco, Yokohama and London, England, the First Meridian, the meaning of Noon and the overhead sun. The film ends with "So that is how the rotation of the [e]arth and the sun mark sun time - there are other methods of determining time - we may illustrate them for you later."

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. There is no information on the film itself or in the catalogues from the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau from November 1931 or Early Films A Catalogue of Films 1907-1930 to indicate the production company responsible for this film or the date or production, but it is not an Ontario Motion Picture Bureau production.~2. This film is listed in the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau catalogue of November 1931.~3. The source of the description is screening and the Graphic Consultants' publication Early Films - A Catalogue of Films 1907-1930, p. 58.~4. Given the 90-year rule, this title is under copyright until 31 December 2019.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

446705

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-3714
GC-3715

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

446710

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2007-11-0175

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

GC-3714
GC-3715

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

448032

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2008-01-0128

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

2007-11-0175

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

454785

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2008-06-0084

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

2007-11-0175

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

The permission of Library and Archives Canada is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Under copyright until 31 December 2019.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: unknown.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Library and Archives Canada

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